Portable heating and cooking shelf.



' Patented Feb. 25, |902. n

A. w. 'NEwELL PORTABLE HEATING- AND CQDKING SHELF.

(Application filed Sept. 23, 1901.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

AUGUSTUS 7WILLIAM NEWELL, OF BRADFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

PORTABLE HEATING AND COOKING SHELF.

SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 694,174, dated February 25, 1902. Application filed September 23,1901. Serial No, 76,265. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS WILLIAM NEWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bradford, in the county of McKean and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Portable Heating and Cooking Shelves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in portable heating and cooking shelf, and pertains to a light portable device with which an ordinary illuminating lamp or lamps are adapted to be used.

The object of my invention is to provide a light portable heating and cooking shelf with which one or more ordinary illuminatinglamps may be used, the same being so constructed that the lamp or lamps used for the heating or cooking at the same time serve to furnish light in the room in which the shelf is being used, thus serving the double purpose of either heating or cooking and at Athe same time lighting the room. v

This device is especially intended for usc in sick-rooms for light, heating, and cooking, for heating flat-irons, for toilet-work or light ironing, and for heating hair-tongs or curling-irons.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective viewof my portable heating and cooking shelf, the same being shown of a sufcient size to accommodate quite a number of lamps. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view showing the shelf folded for transportation or to be carried around from place to place.

In the drawings, A indicates a frame, which is here shown rectangular in form, but may be of any desired contour without in any manner affecting my invention. The frame in actual use is about one inch thick and has secured to its under side a fine Wire-gauze B and to its upper side a heavy woven-wire or perforated metal sheet C. This frame is supported upon folding legs G, which are hinged thereto by the hingesH', the same being attached to the under side of the frame A and lextending downward along the inner sides of the said folding legs. By means of hooks and eyes I the legs are supported firmly in their extended positions, as shown in Figs.'l and 2, when the article to be heated or cooked is placed thereon, the whole being` sufic'iently Vstrong to support a considerable amount of weight. Alamp or lamps J are placed upon a suitable supporting shelf or table J, upon which the heating and cooking shelf is supported, and the lamps placed thereunder..

Preferably the shelf is elongated, as here shown, whereby a number ot' articles may be heated or cooked simultaneously, as many lamps being used'as may be necessary to affeet the desired heating or cooking. also be noted that thedevice being practically entirely open under the heat-ing and cooking shelf, the lamps, in addition to heating and cooking, are doing dutyin the lighting of the room.

The upper heavy woven-wire or perforated sheet metal C is for the purpose of supporting thearticle containing the material being cooked, and the fine wire-gauze attached to the under side of the shelf is for the purpose of obstructing the passage of smoke and gases to the cooking utensil above. In practice it is found that this tine wire-gauze serves to intercept and to catch any small amount of smoke from a lamp or lamps which would otherwise be deposited upon the under side ofthe utensils placed upon the supportingscreen above, and also very effectually serves to deflect a considerable amount of the escaping gases from the lamps, While it allows the passage of the heat from the lamps to the utensils supported by the heavy supporting-wire or perforated plate thereabove.

When 'the device is folded, as shown in Fig. 3, itis adapted to be conveniently placed inthe trunk and readily transported or carried from room to room inA a house. It is especially adapted for use in country houses where gas is not obtainable and is found to be exceedingly eflicient for the purposes herein mentioned.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l., A portable heating and cooking shelf, comprising an open frame having at its under side a fine Wire-gauze smoke and gas intercepting member, at its upper side a heavy supporting open-work member, hinged fold- Itwill IOO ing legs therefor, and holding members for the legs When they are extended, substantially as described.

2. A heating and cooking shelf comprising an elongated open frame adapted to receive thereunder a number of lamps, supportinglegs therefor of a height greater than the height of the lamps and their chimneys, the said open frame having at its under side a smoke and gas intereepting tine wire-gauze, and at its upper side aheavy open-work supporting member, separated from the said wire-gauze, substantially as described.

3. A heating and cooking shelf comprising an. open frame having at its under side a vsmoke and gas intercepting line Wire-gauze member and at its upper side a heavy open- Work supporting member, depending legs having a transverse connecting member at their upper ends, and said legs hinged to the 4,under side of the said open frame, and c011- AUGUSTUS WILLIAM NEWELL.

lVitnesses:

PHEBE L. NEWELL, HENRY F. NEWELL. 

